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  BRIDGE Bibliography 18: Women and girls living with HIV/AIDS: overview and annotated bibliography

  BRIDGE, 2007

  HIV/AIDS is both driven by and entrenches gender inequality, leaving women more vulnerable than men to its impact. This report - consisting of an overview, annotated bibliography, and contacts section - considers the specific challenges faced by women and girls who are living with HIV and AIDS.
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  Relationships and Sex: A Guide for Women with HIV

  Terrence Higgins Trust, 2005

  Being HIV positive can often make you feel that it's just too difficult to have an intimate relationship with anyone. But you are the same person you were before you became HIV positive; your ability to form relationships need not alter because of HIV.
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  Sex, Life and the Female Condom: Some Views of HIV Positive Women

  Reproductive Health Matters, 2006

  This paper offers insights into the experiences of HIV positive women with the female condom, drawing on the responses of 18 ICW members to an email survey conducted in 2005. Major reported barriers to female condom use included cost and sporadic or limited access. All respondents talked about needing to negotiate the use of female condoms with their male sex partners.
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  Putting Women at the Centre: Critical Challenges in Effective Responses to HIV/AIDS

  Gender AIDS Forum, 2003

  Unequal power relations between men and women in South Africa at personal, relationship, household, community and societal levels and are key in the deepening impact of HIV and AIDS in the region. Policies exist to improve the position of women and girls, yet the realities of most women's lives have not improved significantly. The majority of HIV infections occur sexually.
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  Meeting the Sexual and Reproductive Health Needs of People Living with HIV

  Alan Guttmacher Institute, 2006

  As the prospects for people living with HIV have improved worldwide, AIDS activists and the global public health community have increased their focus on quality-of-life issues as well as length-of-life issues. Regardless of HIV status, the ability to express one's sexuality and the desire to experience parenthood are, for many, central to what it means to be human.
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  Gender and Sexuality: Supporting Resources Collection

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007

  Mobilising around sexuality is not new. Activists and practitioners have long been working on issues such as HIV/AIDS; sexual violence; abortion; sex work; and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights. What is new is the integrated, affirmative approach to sexuality which is increasingly being adopted.
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  Sex Work Toolkit

  World Health Organization, 2004

  In many parts of the world, sex workers have been among the groups most vulnerable to and most affected by HIV since the beginning of the AIDS pandemic. This online toolkit is aimed at helping sex workers to protect themselves and their clients from infection by HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
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  The Female Condom: a Guide for Planning and Programming

  Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2000

  This guide shows how to integrate the female condom into already existing programmes and how to effectively promote the female condom and train providers to adequately educate potential users about it.
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  Programme planning materials and training resources: a compendium

  United Nations Population Fund, 2004

  This compendium of materials is intended as a tool for programme planners and health workers interested in improving their youth-focused HIV prevention programmes. Documents summarised in the compendium are drawn from a variety of organisations and institutions, and address global issues, rather than region-specific topics.
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  Cause for Great Concern: The Status of Reproductive Health in Peru

  Center for Health and Gender Equity, 2003

  Despite important advances in the last 40 years, are women's sexual and reproductive health rights being threatened? This newsletter, written by the Director of the San Mart¡n de Porres University Medical Clinic in Lima, Peru, highlights the ways women's sexual and reproductive rights are being undermined by the Peruvian government of Alejandro Toledo, who came to power in 2001.